· Private foundation
Frank & Virginia Rogers Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KNOX COUNTY JUVENILE COURT | $10,000 |
| ROYAL YOUTH DANCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| KIM HEALTH CENTER | $5,819 |
| METRO DRUG COALITION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| VINE SCHOOL HEALTH CENTER | $4,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KMKNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +41%
- KCKNOX COUNTY JUVENILE COURT5× · 2019–2025 · $56k
- L5L 5 FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $50k · revenue -25%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $15k
- RYRoyal Youth Dance Ensemble Incorporatedone grant, 2023 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Performance of opera and musicals
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
To develop and sustain a symphony orchestra of the highest artistic standards and to reach east tennessee audiences of all ages by providing excellence in musical performance and education programs.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Providing art exhibits and education to southwest virginia and northeast tennessee
To bravely imagine the power and passion of opera and who can sing and enjoy it.
To provide services for senior citizens in knox county
Free Medical Care
The mission of maryland opera, inc is (1) the promotion, production and performance in a variety of venues, of live opera experiences to audiences of all ages and backgrounds, (11) the creation and continuation of opera education and…
The academy serves as the local medica society for physicians of knox county and surrounding counties in east tennessee. its purpose is to afford a medium for free discussion and exchange of ideas among physicians.
Presenting free high-quality classical music performances and music education experiences in the Chicago metropolitan area for people of all ages and degrees of musical awareness so they can experience how music enriches life.
To stage the finest professional opera productions in Southeastern New England. To excite and build audiences for the enjoyment of a grand art form. To offer educational programs and creative community outreach events that expand the opera…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds L 5 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds East Tennessee Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Free Medical Clinic of America ↗
- Who funds Royal Youth Dance Ensemble Incorporated ↗
- Who funds METRO DRUG COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds MARBLE CITY OPERA ↗
- Who funds JOY OF MUSIC YOUTH MUSIC SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Haslam Family Foundation Inc · The Aslan Foundation · East Tennessee Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Frank & Virginia Rogers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank & Virginia Rogers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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